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Devil's Gambit #11: "Rian" is out!
🕑 Added 2025-08-07 18:51:36 +0000 UTCAlone in the depths, you see nothing. You wait, and wait, until a mirage forms. Is it the memory of a knife, or a caress? It makes no difference; you lunge forward and grasp it. Grasp at every little piece falling from the surface that you can, for that is what makes you yourself.
Greetings! Build 11 is now out! It consists of a 12k words long chapter, 17 new sprites, and 5 new CGs. The curtains opens both to Act III and the full truth. What awaits for us beyond the depths?
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Comments
Alpha0
I'm forwarding all those comments to the writing team! Thank you!
dipstik subaru
I just love Rian and his childlike qualities and innocence at certain things. I fear what happens to him at the end as we all know how it ends for the characters you're supposed to get attached to
dipstik subaru
I just read up to "The Price of Truth" again. I always forget just how well done this FVN is. Like this story is so well thought out, the world is so fully explained you never question how anything works (besides the earth helpers so far at least), everything is so well explained. The mark of a good story teller is the ability to make the reader care for the characters, form an emotional connection to them 😢. Arches did it, some of the Echo routes did, Adastra obviously, Lyre, and Northern Lights, to name a few, all have the ability to make you feel things for a sprite on the screen, they're not real but you made them feel real. I feel for Rian, to the point I don't want to read past this chapter, because I know how nearly all of these FVN's end when they make one care so much for one character and I refuse to let that happen to Rian. I want to keep that pic of his face, the one staring at us when he's confronted. The innocence and fear you managed to convey in those ruby eyes is simply amazing, and I never want to know he's not there anymore.
TerribleLeon
Finally had time to get to this latest chapter and.. Wow. Gripping, compelling and absolutely brilliant. While I've always thoroughly enjoyed this project, this latest installment has set it far far above anything else I've read in the genre. It's almost painful how quickly I read through it because once I started I couldn't stop.
dipstik subaru
Let's hope he hears this. Rian, you're beautiful. Yes Cadgan kept his looks, but that doesn't mean you're suddenly lesser. You're both uniquely beautiful/handsome, but that doesn't make one more so than the other. Though, in my opinion, YOU got the looks sir, you came out ahead, not Caddy. I hope you see that before it's too late.
dipstik subaru
I have to stop reading these VN's. The depressing 😞, always sad endings are hard on one's psyche.
dipstik subaru
IMO I like him better than Cadgan. He has a curiosity to him, maybe that's due to him being only 9yrs old in a way. Or maybe I have that wrong and he acts as he does because those feelings and emotions often are ignored the older we get, so seeing an adult that only has them makes them seem childish. I feel bad that he thinks Caddy "got the looks." Dude, you're jacked, your eyes are beautiful, and the purple ear tips are amazing. Whoever came up with his design, 👍
